Marjorie Woolcock (1898 – 1965) was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. She was born in Melbourne in 1898, the eldest of the six children of Robena Ann (née Black, 1868 – 1954), only daughter of the late Captain Alexander Black, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Frederick Woolcock (1867 – 1963) a clerk/agent. She studied at the Working Mens’ College (later known as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) where she was doing an advanced course Modelling the Human Figure from a cast in 1931. She also studied at the George Bell School. In 1936 she exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters at the Athenaeum: In the 1940’s she shared a studio in St James Building with Louise Thomas, a Miss Bell, and Mabel Crump. She was a foundation member of the Melbourne Contemporary Artists Group, a member of the Victorian Artists Society and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Woolcock’s participation in the following exhibitions was reviewed or noted in newspapers:
Annual Autumn Exhibition of the Victorian Artists’ Society May 1931
Melbourne Society of Woman Painters Annual Exhibition October 1932
Society of Woman Painters October 1936
Society of Woman Painters October 1938
Annual exhibition of the Society of Women Painters May 1939
Society of Woman Painters Exhibition for the Red Cross, October 1939
George Bell School Artists, November 1939
Melbourne Society of Women Painters, Athenaeum Gallery, October 1940
27 Melbourne Contemporary Artists, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Victorian Artists Society, April 1941
Annual exhibition of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters, Athenaeum Gallery, October 1941
Victorian Artists Society, April 1942
Annual exhibition of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters, Athenaeum Gallery, October 1942
Melbourne Contemporary Artists, Athenaeum Gallery, September 1943
Annual exhibition of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters, Athenaeum Gallery, October 1943
Joint exhibition by Marjorie Woolcock and Jessie Mackintosh, Athenaeum Gallery, May 1946
Annual exhibition of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters, Athenaeum Gallery, October 1946
Arts Council exhibiton, Elder Hall, South Australia, August 1948
Arts Council exhibition, Society of Arts gallery, South Australia, August 1949
Melbourne Society of Women Painters, Tye’s Gallery, October 1949
Victorian Artists Society, October, 1950
Melbourne Society of Women Painters, 45th annual exhibition, Athenaeum gallery.
- Writers:
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James McArdle
- Date written:
- 2023
- Last updated:
- 2023
